étai

See also: étaï

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tɛ/

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French estai, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English stæġ (“rope, stay”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stagą. More at stay.

Noun

étai m (plural étais)

1. (nautical) A stay

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French estaie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French atay, escai, *estai, of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin. More at stay.

Noun

étai m (plural étais)

1. stay, prop, strut, support

Further reading

• “étai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːdi/

Verb

·étai

1. second-person singular present indicative prototonic of ad·cota

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·étai	unchanged	·n-étai
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.